Jonathan Swift

The Very Reverend Jonathan Swift
Portrait bi Charles Jervas
Born	30 November 1667(1667-11-30) Dublin, Ireland
Dee'd	19 October 1745(1745-10-19) (aged 77) Dublin, Ireland
Pen name	M. B. Drapier Lemuel Gulliver Isaac Bickerstaff
Thrift	Satirist Essayist Poleetical pamphleteer Poet Priest
Leid	Inglis
Naitionality	Erse
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin
Notable warks	Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal A Tale o a Tub Drapier's Letters
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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) wis an Anglo-Erse satirist, essayist, poleetical pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet an cleric who acame Dean o St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

Swift is rememmered for warks such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), an A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regairdit bi the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremaist prose sateerist in the Inglis leid, an is less weel kent for his poetry. He oreeginally published aw o his warks unner pseudonyms – sic as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier – or anonymously. He wis a maister o twa styles o sateer, the Horatian an Juvenalian styles.

His deadpan, ironic writin style, pairteecularly in A Modest Proposal, haes led tae sic sateer bein subsequently termed "Swiftian".